196:3.34 (2097.2) The great challenge to modern man is to achieve better communication with the divine Monitor that dwells within the human mind. Man’s greatest adventure in the flesh consists in the well-balanced and sane effort to advance the borders of self-consciousness out through the dim realms of embryonic soul-consciousness in a wholehearted effort to reach the borderland of spirit-consciousness—contact with the divine presence. Such an experience constitutes God-consciousness, an experience mightily confirmative of the pre-existent truth of the religious experience of knowing God. Such spirit-consciousness is the equivalent of the knowledge of the actuality of sonship with God. Otherwise, the assurance of sonship is the experience of faith.

196:3.31 (2096.7) In the realm of religious experience, spiritual possibility is potential reality. Man’s forward spiritual urge is not a psychic illusion. All of man’s universe romancing may not be fact, but much, very much, is truth.

we've been tasked with god-consciousness which yields assurances greater than the experience of faith:



the unification of total experience is our task. and the papers aren't nearly as skeptical about the true capabilities of the human imagination as bradly:

Faith is truth even when many of the beliefs about God and reality are false.

not talking about potential...talking about reality and this repeating theme of yours

Morality without religion fails to reveal ultimate goodness, and it also fails to provide for the survival of even its own moral values.

the unconscious birth of the soul at the time of the first moral choice doesn't bear a lot of weight alone:

well it's taken for granted there that we're making good moral choices with survival value. bad is a moral choice also, and the papers don't specify that the birth of the soul arrives with one or the other.

well it's taken for granted there that we're making good moral choices with survival value. bad is a moral choice also, and the papers don't specify that the birth of the soul arrives with one or the other. i see it as when the childs heart recognizes that there is such a thing as morally good and bad behavior instead of just things that i'm allowed to do and things that get me in trouble.

i don't think we experience the fact that God found us first until we first experience what i said above and that's why in your quote there Jesus says the problem is the person is not god-knowing.

Are you saying that it's possible for a soul to be born by a person choosing evil when given a choice between good and evil?

it's not a major issue to me other than that whatever the choice is at that time, it's not a conscious spiritual choice.

The possibility of mistaken judgment (evil) becomes sin only when the human will consciously endorses and knowingly embraces a deliberate immoral judgment.

1. The intellectual capacity for knowing God—God-consciousness.
2. The spiritual urge to find God—God seeking.
3. The personality craving to be like God—the wholehearted desire to do the Father’s will.

110:3.6 (1206.4) ....You can consciously augment Adjuster harmony by:

110:3.7 (1206.5) 1. Choosing to respond to divine leading; sincerely basing the human life on the highest consciousness of truth, beauty, and goodness, and then co-ordinating these qualities of divinity through wisdom, worship, faith, and love.

110:3.8 (1206.6) 2. Loving God and desiring to be like him—genuine recognition of the divine fatherhood and loving worship of the heavenly Parent.

110:3.9 (1206.7) 3. Loving man and sincerely desiring to serve him—wholehearted recognition of the brotherhood of man coupled with an intelligent and wise affection for each of your fellow mortals.

110:3.10 (1206. 4. Joyful acceptance of cosmic citizenship—honest recognition of your progressive obligations to the Supreme Being, awareness of the interdependence of evolutionary man and evolving Deity. This is the birth of cosmic morality and the dawning realization of universal duty.

the birth of the soul indicates an inherent universal urge of mind to do the will of god, but we aren't conscious of it at that stage.